>It's an entirely different beast then the comic. The comic
>was very dark think Tarantino-esque humor where some topics
>were tackled seriously(abuse).
>
>While the TV show can be dark its also so surreal to a cartoon
>level which blunts some of the darkness evident in the comic.
>
>They had some great ideas in the tv show that imho makes it
>superior to the comic in some ways. But I go back to my
>biggest problem with the show; the plotting.

Did you watch the Talking Preacher show that aired after the last episode? If not, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were there and they explained they wanted to slow things down for the first season because plot points and ideas were introduced very quickly and they wanted to establish a lot of the origins for the characters on a piecemeal basis so the audience could understand things better.

>Blowing up the town we grew to know over the past ten months
>is a fucking hilarious idea on paper and works well in the
>world they built.
>
>However, considering how the first season came off unsure
>about plotting...I can't tell if (apparently) killing off
>every side character we grew to like making their
>storylines/characterizations moot was balsy or just shows you
>how worthless the whole exercise was. To get to this point
>feels like something you could have covered in a two hour long
>pilot as opposed to a whole season.
>
>And the thing is they did a great job with building this world
>with all these quirky motherfuckers; who saw Preacher and the
>S&M couple making up? The organist killing off the mayor,
>while a surprise, was a very interesting wrinkle to her story.
> Or even going deeper to what happens to a religious community
>when they know there's no higher power looking out for them?

That couple, especially the dude he got his arm broken, got a gun put in his mouth, and had to blow one of the eardrums to bits to avoid The Preacher's power agreeing to hide The Preacher made no sense to me and was one of the times the last episode lost me. Felt like a weird tonal shift to see them be so welcoming to The Preacher and even Tulip given that Tulip broke the woman's nose on the table in the same episode. It'll be interesting to see if the show tries to meld the dark subject matter along with the comedic beats Goldberg and Rogen seem to want to interject. I am curious how much time those two will invest in this show since I believe they wrote movies in the past together and I have to think movie money trumps what they earn from AMC.

>Ill be watching next year; there's nothing like Preacher on
>tv, I just can't decide if I love it yet.